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Article: Smooth ride for bike tour after shaky start in 1990s
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- The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
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- September 8, 2009
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HARVY LIPMAN, STAFF WRITER
The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
09-08-2009
Smooth ride for bike tour after shaky start in 1990s -- Bergen event has raised more than $1M for charities
By HARVY LIPMAN, STAFF WRITER
Date: 09-08-2009, Tuesday
Section: BUSINESS
The Bergen Bike Tour didn't get off to the most auspicious start 13 years ago.
"Our first event was as close to a disaster as you could get," recalled Phil Murphy, the Oakland accountant who with several of his colleagues thought up the idea of a bike ride to raise money for charity. "It rained, and everything that could go wrong did. We had someone get hurt riding his bike. One of my associates pulled his car out of the parking lot and the sign ...